Essential Tagging Plugins for WordPress
Tags are labels that people use to make it easier to find blog posts, photos and videos that are related. Technorati is a blog search engine that employs tags to index content found in the blogosphere. Placing Technorati tags at the bottom of your blog posts is essential if you want to be indexed quickly by Technorati.
When I say quickly, it is almost instantaneous.
SimpleTags is a free WordPress plugin that will allow you to easily generate Technorati tags at the bottom of your post. While there are already several tag-generating WordPress plugins out there, SimpleTags is the only one that does not make you use the custom fields within WordPress. It’s really that simple.
Download SimpleTags.
The Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) is a free plugin that increases post tagging capabilities and expands site navigation through the creation of lists of tags. UTW also allows you to get an overview of your tags through tag clouds and graphic representation such as a long tail graph and/or weighted bar arrangement. UTW is a versatile tagging plugin that has a numerous features that allow for a wide range of customization, such as:
- Create a tag archive page
- Display a tag cloud
- Display a long-tail graph
- Display a weighted bar
Download the Ultimate Tag Warrior.
When used in conjuction with the popular WordPress Side Bar Widgets AND the Ultimate Tag Warrior, this free widget enables you to add a tag cloud to your WordPress sidebar. Tags are sized according to their popularity.
Download the Tag Cloud Widget for UTW.
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